Here's a quick run-down of the blog post assignment I'm asking all of you to do!

Choose a peer-reviewed scientific paper from the primary literature (you can browse the "course readings" blog posts for suggestions, or just find your own paper of interest), write a short summary of the paper, including the following elements:
Paper citation
Purpose: 2 - 4 sentences
Methods: 1 - 2 sentences
Results: 2 - 4 sentences

And then write a bit (4 - 8 sentences) about how this study might be of interest to people practicing invertebrate conservation biology in Palau. This might require a bit of background reading, or you're welcome to come talk to Dr. Rundell or Jesse about it for ideas!

For those of you who have taken (or are taking) EFB 311, this will be a little like your Darwin Day posters, but without the figures. Avoid long quotations (and, obviously, don't plagiarize), and try to write for a general audience. 
 
Example:
 
Citation:
Economo EP and Sarnat EM. 2012. Revisiting the ants of Melanesia and the taxon cycle: historical and human-mediated invasions of a tropical archipelago. Am Nat 180: E1–16.
http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/images/6/69/Economo_sarnat_2012.pdf
 
Purpose:
Economo and Sarnat describe the patterns of ant species richness and evolutionary history in Fiji, especially as they pertain to forest age and elevation. The authors do this with the framework of EO Wilson’s taxon cycle hypothesis, which predicts patterns of ant evolution on islands. EO Wilson wrote that ants that are more recent arrivals to islands in evolutionary time are more likely to live in edge habitats and/or secondary forests, whereas ants whose ancestors arrived on islands earlier on are more likely to live in less anthropogenically disturbed, interior, old-growth forests. However, EO Wilson predicted these things before we could confidently re-construct the evolutionary history of organisms, so Economo and Sarnat are among the first to test his ideas in a robust way.
 
Methods:
The authors bring together information on both ant distributions (based mostly on their own collection data) and phylogenies (based on DNA sequences). The authors focus on the genus Pheidole, which is the most species-rich ant genus (both in Fiji and in the world).
 
Results:
The ants with the deepest evolutionary history in Fiji tend to be from high elevation and interior forests. Anthropogenically introduced ants are most likely to be found in the lowlands. These findings are consistent with Wilson's (1959, 1961) observations about the way taxa are distributed in Melanesian islands, but do not form a full component of a "cycle."
 
Significance for Palau:
Palau probably has between half and 66% of the ant species richness that Fiji has, but it's species richness is divided up very differently. As far as we know (Jesse writing in early 2018), there are not any evolutionarily deep (>5my) radiations of ants in Palau. Most species are either recently diverged within the archipelago, or more closely related to something in nearby, larger islands (esp. PNG or Mindanao). Palau also doesn't have any elevation that exceeds ~200m, but has much more intact lowland tropical rainforest (mostly on the limestone karst), so the distribution of endemic species is likely to be somewhat different than the distribution of endemism in Fiji. The extent to which taxa diversify in islands seems to be related to dispersal ability and island area: organisms that are good at dispersing (e.g., birds, bats) don't diversify in small islands, but organisms that are poor dispersers (e.g., snails) often do. Different ants likely span the range of dispersal ability between small birds and diplommatinid snails, so they're kind of a cool taxon to examine for patterns of endemism. In general, this paper is an important one to read in the broader context of terrestrial conservation in tropical Pacific islands, but it also stands in contrast to many of the distinct features of Palau and its biota.

Palau is pretty famous for marine invertebrate diversity, so there are lots of potentially relevant papers here. Keep an eye out especially for papers that have Golbuu (research director at PICRC), and Colin (CRRF) as authors. Mike Dawson has also been co-author on lots of really cool marine invertebrate papers, including lots of the coolest papers about Jellyfish Lake.

In addition to the publications below, you're encouraged to check out the research pages of PICRC, the CRRF, and Mike Dawson.

http://picrc.org/picrcpage/research/current-projects/
http://coralreefpalau.org/research/
http://mnd.ucmerced.edu/Research/Overview.html

Hannah Barkley has done some of the coolest recent research on coral health in Palau. In addition to the two publications listed below, there are some nice outreach pieces about stuff she's done in collaboration with PICRC:
http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/coral-crusader
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature/acidic-coral-refugia/


Marine invertebrates:

Barkley, H.C. & Cohen, A.L. (2016) Skeletal records of community-level bleaching in Porites corals from Palau. Coral reefs , 35, 1407–1417.

Barkley, H.C., Cohen, A.L., McCorkle, D.C., & Golbuu, Y. (2017) Mechanisms and thresholds for pH tolerance in Palau corals. Journal of experimental marine biology and ecology, 489, 7–14.

Barry, J.P., Widdicombe, S., & Hall-Spencer, J.M. (2011) Effects of ocean acidification on marine biodiversity and ecosystem function. Ocean acidification, 192–209.

Bayha, K.M. & Graham, W.M. (2013) Nonindigenous Marine Jellyfish: Invasiveness, Invasibility, and Impacts. Jellyfish Blooms pp. 45–77. Springer, Dordrecht

Becking, L.E., Erpenbeck, D., Peijnenburg, K.T.C.A., & de Voogd, N.J. (2013) Phylogeography of the sponge Suberites diversicolor in Indonesia: insights into the evolution of marine lake populations. PloS one, 8, e75996.

Becking, L.E., de Leeuw, C.A., Knegt, B., Maas, D.L., de Voogd, N.J., Abdunnur, Suyatna, I., & Peijnenburg, K.T.C.A. (2016) Highly divergent mussel lineages in isolated Indonesian marine lakes. PeerJ, 4, e2496.

Carroll, A.G., Harrison, P.L., & Adjeroud, M. (2017) Susceptibility of coral assemblages to successive bleaching events at Moorea, French Polynesia. Marine and Freshwater Research, 68, 760–771.

Dawson, M.N. (2005) Five new subspecies of Mastigias (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Mastigiidae) from marine lakes, Palau, Micronesia. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 85, 679–694.

Dawson, M.N. (2016) Island and island-like marine environments. Global ecology and biogeography: a journal of macroecology, 25, 831–846.

Dawson, M.N., Cieciel, K., Decker, M.B., Hays, G.C., Lucas, C.H., & Pitt, K.A. (2015) Population-level perspectives on global change: genetic and demographic analyses indicate various scales, timing, and causes of scyphozoan jellyfish blooms. Biological invasions, 17, 851–867.

DeVantier, L. & Turak, E. (2017) Species Richness and Relative Abundance of Reef-Building Corals in the Indo-West Pacific. Diversity, 9, 25.

Doyle, T.K., Hays, G.C., Harrod, C., & Houghton, J.D.R. (2014) Ecological and Societal Benefits of Jellyfish. Jellyfish Blooms pp. 105–127. Springer, Dordrecht,

Evans, S.M., McKenna, C., Simpson, S.D., Tournois, J., & Genner, M.J. (2016) Patterns of species range evolution in Indo-Pacific reef assemblages reveal the Coral Triangle as a net source of transoceanic diversity. Biology letters, 12

Foo, S.A. & Byrne, M. (2016) Acclimatization and Adaptive Capacity of Marine Species in a Changing Ocean. pp. 69–116. Elsevier

Foo, S.A. & Byrne, M. (2017) Marine gametes in a changing ocean: Impacts of climate change stressors on fecundity and the egg. Marine environmental research, 128, 12–24.

Fortunato, H. (2015) Mollusks: Tools in Environmental and Climate Research. American malacological bulletin, 33, 310–324.

Golbuu, Y., Victor, S., Penland, L., Idip, D., Emaurois, C., Okaji, K., Yukihira, H., Iwase, A., & Van Woesik, R. (2007) Palau’s coral reefs show differential habitat recovery following the 1998-bleaching event. Coral reefs , 26, 319–332.

Hanzawa, N., Gotoh, R.O., Sekimoto, H., Goto, T.V., Chiba, S.N., Kuriiwa, K., & Tamate, H.B. (2012) Genetic diversity and evolution of marine animals isolated in marine lakes. Analysis of Genetic Variation in Animals InTech,
Hardy, J.T. & Hardy, S.A. (1969) Ecology of Tridacna in Palau. .

Heslinga, G.A. & Fitt, W.K. (1987) The Domestication of Reef-Dwelling Clams. Bioscience, 37, 332–339.

Iwase, A., Sakai, K., Suzuki, A., & van Woesik, R. (2008) Phototropic adjustment of the foliaceous coral Echinopora lamellosa in Palau. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 77, 672–678.

Kayal, M., Vercelloni, J., Lison de Loma, T., Bosserelle, P., Chancerelle, Y., Geoffroy, S., Stievenart, C., Michonneau, F., Penin, L., Planes, S., & Adjeroud, M. (2012) Predator crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) outbreak, mass mortality of corals, and cascading effects on reef fish and benthic communities. PloS one, 7, e47363.
Knights, A.M., Firth, L.B., & Russell, B.D. (2017) Ecological responses to environmental change in marine systems. Journal of experimental marine biology and ecology, 492, 3–6.

Morgan, K.M., Perry, C.T., Smithers, S.G., Johnson, J.A., & Daniell, J.J. (2016) Evidence of extensive reef development and high coral cover in nearshore environments: implications for understanding coral adaptation in turbid settings. Scientific reports, 6, 29616.

Norris, R.D. & Hull, P.M. (2012) The temporal dimension of marine speciation. Evolutionary ecology, 26, 393–415.

Paulay, G., Kropp, R., Ng, P.K.L., & Eldredge, L.G. (2003) The crustaceans and pycnogonids of the Mariana Islands. Micronesica, 35, 456–513.

Purcell, S.W., Hair, C.A., & Mills, D.J. (2012) Sea cucumber culture, farming and sea ranching in the tropics: Progress, problems and opportunities. Aquaculture , 368, 68–81.

Sarmento, V.C., Souza, T.P., Esteves, A.M., & Santos, P.J.P. (2015) Effects of seawater acidification on a coral reef meiofauna community. Coral reefs , 34, 955–966.

Stanley, G.D., Jr & Lipps, J.H. (2011) Photosymbiosis: the driving force for reef success and failure. Paleontological Society Paper, 17, 33–60.

Swift, H.F., Gómez Daglio, L., & Dawson, M.N. (2016) Three routes to crypsis: Stasis, convergence, and parallelism in the Mastigias species complex (Scyphozoa, Rhizostomeae). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 99, 103–115.

Woesik, R., Houk, P., Isechal, A.L., Idechong, J.W., Victor, S., & Golbuu, Y. (2012) Climate-change refugia in the sheltered bays of Palau: analogs of future reefs. Ecology and evolution, 2, 2474–2484.

van Woesik, R. (2017) Contemporary coral bleaching: why diversity matters. Biodiversity , 18, 16–18.

van Woesik, R., Irikawa, A., Anzai, R., & Nakamura, T. (2012) Effects of coral colony morphologies on mass transfer and susceptibility to thermal stress. Coral reefs , 31, 633–639.

Yamaguchi, M. (1977) Conservation and cultivation of giant clams in the tropical Pacific. Biological conservation, 11, 13–20.

Zapalski, M.K., Wrzołek, T., Skompski, S., & Berkowski, B. (2017) Deep in shadows, deep in time: the oldest mesophotic coral ecosystems from the Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland). Coral reefs , 36, 847–860.

三宅貞 (1938) Notes on decapod crustaceans collected by Prof. Teiso Esaki from Micronesia. 日本動物学彙報, 17, 107–112.

Much less is known about the freshwater invertebrates of Palau (and about freshwater invertebrates of tropical islands in Oceania generally), so this list is a bit shorter, and more broad. Some of the references deal with the use of freshwater macroinvertebrates as biomonitoring tools, and some deal with the general ecology of stream invertebrates generally.

Freshwater invertebrates

Beatty, C.D., Sánchez Herrera, M., Skevington, J.H., Rashed, A., Van Gossum, H., Kelso, S., & Sherratt, T.N. Biogeography and systematics of endemic island damselflies: The Nesobasis and Melanesobasis (Odonata: Zygoptera) of Fiji. Ecology and evolution

Benstead, J.P., March, J.G., Pringle, C.M., Ewel, K.C., & Short, J.W. (2009) Biodiversity and ecosystem function in species-poor communities: community structure and leaf litter breakdown in a Pacific island stream. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 28, 454–465.

Boulton, A.J., Boyero, L., Covich, A.P., Dobson, M., Lake, S., & Pearson, R. (2008) Are Tropical Streams Ecologically Different from Temperate Streams? Tropical Stream Ecology pp. 257–284. Elsevier

Carbonell, J.A., Velasco, J., Millán, A., Green, A.J., Coccia, C., Guareschi, S., & Gutiérrez-Cánovas, C. (2017) Biological invasion modifies the co-occurrence patterns of insects along a stress gradient. Functional ecology, 31, 1957–1968.

Chapuis, E., Lamy, T., Pointier, J.-P., Juillet, N., Ségard, A., Jarne, P., & David, P. (2017) Bioinvasion Triggers Rapid Evolution of Life Histories in Freshwater Snails. The American naturalist, 190, 694–706.

Covich, A.P. & Others (2006) Dispersal-limited biodiversity of tropical insular streams. Polish Journal of Ecology, 54, 523–547.

Craig, D.A., Currie, D.C., & Joy, D.A. (2001) Geographical history of the central-western Pacific black fly subgenus Inseliellum (Diptera: Simuliidae: Simulium) based on a reconstructed phylogeny of the species, hot-spot archipelagoes and hydrological considerations. Journal of biogeography, 28, 1101–1127.

Haase, M. & Bouchet, P. (1998) Radiation of crenobiontic gastropods on an ancient continental island: the Hemistomia-clade in New Caledonia (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Hydrobiologia, 367, 43–129.

Haynes, A. (1990) The numbers of freshwater gastropods on Pacific islands and the theory of island biogeography. Malacologia, 31, 237–248.

Hobbelen, P.H.F., Samuel, M.D., Foote, D., Tango, L., & LaPointe, D.A. (2013) Modeling the impacts of global warming on predation and biotic resistance: mosquitoes, damselflies and avian malaria in Hawaii. Theoretical Ecology, 6, 31–44.

Joy, D.A., Craig, D.A., & Conn, J.E. (2007) Genetic variation tracks ecological segregation in Pacific island black flies. Heredity, 99, 452–459.

Kalkman, V.J., Clausnitzer, V., Dijkstra, K.-D.B., Orr, A.G., Paulson, D.R., & van Tol, J. (2008) Global diversity of dragonflies (Odonata) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia, 595, 351–363.

Maciolek, J.A. & Ford, J.I. (1987) Macrofauna and Environment of the Nanpil-Klepw River, Ponape, Eastern Caroline Islands. Bulletin of marine science, 41, 623–632.

March, J.G., Benstead, J.P., Pringle, C.M., & Luckymis, M. (2003) Benthic Community Structure and Invertebrate Drift in a Pacific Island Stream, Kosrae, Micronesia. Biotropica, 35, 125–130.

McINNES, S.J. & Pugh, P.J.A. (2007) An attempt to revisit the global biogeography of limno-terrestrial Tardigrada. Journal of limnology, 66, 90–96.

Oppel, S. (2005) Habitat associations of an Odonata community in a lower montane rainforest in Papua New Guinea. International journal of odonatology: official organ of the Worldwide Dragonfly Association, 8, 243–257.

Wade, L.M., Fanolua, F.S., Vargo, A.M., van Houte-Howes, K., Bardi, E., & Vargo, D.L. (2008) Exploiting Macrofauna Diadromy for Assessing Anthropogenic Impact in American Samoa Streams. Pacific science, 62, 177–190.

Below, there are a variety of papers that deal with terrestrial invertebrates in Oceania (especially Palau, where possible).

Here's a nice blog post that outlines some of what we know and what we still don't know about land snails in the tropics (doesn't count as a peer-reviewed paper, but could be nice background reading):
https://landsnailsandslugs.wordpress.com/community-ecology-of-tropical-forest-snails-30-years-after-solem/

Terrestrial invertebrates

Casquet, J., Bourgeois, Y.X.C., Cruaud, C., Gavory, F., Gillespie, R.G., & Thébaud, C. (2015) Community assembly on remote islands: a comparison of Hawaiian and Mascarene spiders. Journal of biogeography, 42, 39–50.

Chiba, S. & Cowie, R.H. (2016) Evolution and Extinction of Land Snails on Oceanic Islands. Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 47, 123–141.

Clouse, R.M., Janda, M., Blanchard, B., Sharma, P., Hoffmann, B.D., Andersen, A.N., Czekanski-Moir, J.E., Krushelnycky, P., Rabeling, C., Wilson, E.O., Economo, E.P., Sarnat, E.M., General, D.M., Alpert, G.D., & Wheeler, W.C. (2015) Molecular phylogeny of Indo-Pacific carpenter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae, Camponotus) reveals waves of dispersal and colonization from diverse source areas. Cladistics: the international journal of the Willi Hennig Society, 31, 424–437.

Cowie, R.H., Fontaine, B., & Bouchet, P. (2017) Measuring the sixth extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus, 131, 3–41.

Craven, D., Thakur, M.P., Cameron, E.K., Frelich, L.E., Beauséjour, R., Blair, R.B., Blossey, B., Burtis, J., Choi, A., Dávalos, A., & Others (2017) The unseen invaders: introduced earthworms as drivers of change in plant communities in North American forests (a meta-analysis). Global change biology, 23, 1065–1074.

Economo, E.P., Janda, M., Guénard, B., & Sarnat, E. (2017) Assembling a species--area curve through colonization, speciation and human-mediated introduction. Journal of biogeography, 44, 1088–1097.

Economo, E.P. & Sarnat, E.M. (2012) Revisiting the ants of Melanesia and the taxon cycle: historical and human-mediated invasions of a tropical archipelago. The American naturalist, 180, E1–16.

Economo, E.P., Sarnat, E.M., Janda, M., Clouse, R., Klimov, P.B., Fischer, G., Blanchard, B.D., Ramirez, L.N., Andersen, A.N., Berman, M., Guénard, B., Lucky, A., Rabeling, C., Wilson, E.O., & Knowles, L.L. (2015) Breaking out of biogeographical modules: range expansion and taxon cycles in the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole. Journal of biogeography, 42, 2289–2301.

Gillespie, R.G., Brewer, M.S., & Roderick, G.K. (2017) Ancient biogeography of generalist predators on remote oceanic islands. Journal of biogeography, 44, 1098–1109.

Glasby, C.J., Mogi, M., Takahashi, K.-I., & Others (2003) Occurrence of the polychaete Namalycastis hawaiiensis Johnson, 1903 (Nereididae: Namanereidinae) in Pandanus leaf axils on Palau, west Pacific. Beagle: Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, The, 19, 97.

Green, P.T., O’Dowd, D.J., Abbott, K.L., Jeffery, M., Retallick, K., & Mac Nally, R. (2011) Invasional meltdown: Invader–invader mutualism facilitates a secondary invasion. Ecology, 92, 1758–1768.

Gressitt, L.J. (1954) Introduction: Insects of Micronesia. Bernice P. Bishop Museum,
http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/iom1.pdf

Hembry, D.H., Okamoto, T., McCormack, G., & Gillespie, R.G. (2013) Phytophagous insect community assembly through niche conservatism on oceanic islands. Journal of biogeography, 40, 225–235.

Krushelnycky, P.D. & Gillespie, R.G. (2010) Sampling across space and time to validate natural experiments: an example with ant invasions in Hawaii. Biological invasions, 12, 643–655.

Morrison, L.W. (2015) Species Assembly Patterns in Polynesian Ants. Pacific science, 69, 81–94.

O’Dowd, D.J., Green, P.T., & Lake, P.S. (2003) Invasional “meltdown”on an oceanic island. Ecology letters, 6, 812–817.

Rodriguez, L.J., Bain, A., Chou, L.-S., Conchou, L., Cruaud, A., Gonzales, R., Hossaert-McKey, M., Rasplus, J.-Y., Tzeng, H.-Y., & Kjellberg, F. (2017) Diversification and spatial structuring in the mutualism between Ficus septica and its pollinating wasps in insular South East Asia. BMC evolutionary biology, 17, 207.

Rundell, R.J. (2008) Cryptic diversity, molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the rock- and leaf litter-dwelling land snails of Belau (Republic of Palau, Oceania). Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 363, 3401–3412.

Schilthuizen, M., Teräväinen, M.I.F., Tawith, N.F.K., Ibrahim, H., Chea, S.M., Chuan, C.P., Daim, L.J., Jubaidi, A., Madjapuni, M.J., Sabeki, M., & Mokhtar, A. (2002) MICROSNAILS AT MICROSCALES IN BORNEO: DISTRIBUTIONS OF PROSOBRANCHIA VERSUS PULMONATA. The Journal of molluscan studies, 68, 255–258.

Simberloff, D. (2006) Invasional meltdown 6 years later: important phenomenon, unfortunate metaphor, or both? Ecology letters, 9, 912–919.

Wall, A.F., Yanes, Y., Miller, J.H., Miller - Biodiversity and Conservation, A.I., & 2017 (2017) Bellwether of the Canaries: anthropogenic effects on the land snail fauna of the Canary Islands. Springer, .

Wardle, D.A. & Peltzer, D.A. (2017) Impacts of invasive biota in forest ecosystems in an aboveground–belowground context. Biological invasions, 1–16.

Wepfer, P.H., Guénard, B., & Economo, E.P. (2016) Influences of climate and historical land connectivity on ant beta diversity in East Asia. Journal of biogeography, 43, 2311–2321.

Wilder, S.M., Holway, D.A., Suarez, A.V., LeBrun, E.G., & Eubanks, M.D. (2011) Intercontinental differences in resource use reveal the importance of mutualisms in fire ant invasions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, 20639–20644.

Hi Everyone! Here are some readings that might be useful as a general background. Let me know if you have trouble tracking down .pdf's, or if you want to borrow any of the books. Some of the books might be a good investment if you think this kind of stuff will be a long-term interest!

General overview of invertebrates, conservation biology, biogeography, Palau
 
Anderson, T.R., Hessen, D.O., Boersma, M., Urabe, J., & Mayor, D.J. (2017) Will Invertebrates Require Increasingly Carbon-Rich Food in a Warming World? The American naturalist

Boyer, S.L., Clouse, R.M., Benavides, L.R., Sharma, P., Schwendinger, P.J., Karunarathna, I., & Giribet, G. (2007) Biogeography of the world: a case study from cyphophthalmid Opiliones, a globally distributed group of arachnids. Journal of biogeography, 34, 2070–2085.

Brusca, R.C., Moore, W., & Shuster, S.M. (2016) Invertebrates. Sinauer.

Cameron, E.K., Vilà, M., & Cabeza, M. (2016) Global meta-analysis of the impacts of terrestrial invertebrate invaders on species, communities and ecosystems. Global ecology and biogeography: a journal of macroecology, 25, 596–606.
Colin, P.L. (2009) Marine environments of Palau. Indo-Pacific Press, San Diego.

Dawson, M.N. (2012) Species richness, habitable volume, and species densities in freshwater, the sea, and on land. Frontiers of Biogeography, 4

Dawson, M.N., Axmacher, J.C., Beierkuhnlein, C., Blois, J.L., Bradley, B.A., Cord, A.F., Dengler, J., He, K.S., Heaney, L.S., Jansson, R., & Others (2016) A second horizon scan of biogeography: Golden Ages, Midas touches, and the Red Queen. Frontiers of biogeography, 8.

Dendy, J., Cordell, S., Giardina, C.P., Hwang, B., Polloi, E., & Rengulbai, K. (2015) The role of remnant forest patches for habitat restoration in degraded areas of Palau. Restoration Ecology, 23, 872–881.

Gaylord, B., Kroeker, K.J., Sunday, J.M., Anderson, K.M., Barry, J.P., Brown, N.E., Connell, S.D., Dupont, S., Fabricius, K.E., Hall-Spencer, J.H., Klinger, T., Milazzo, M., Munday, P.L., Russell, B.D., Sanford, E., Schreiber, S.J., Thiyagarajan, V., Vaughan, M.L.H., Widdicombe, S., & Harley, C.D.G. (2015) Ocean acidification through the lens of ecological theory. Ecology, 96, 3–15.

Gillespie, R.G. (2013) Adaptive radiation: convergence and non-equilibrium. Current biology: CB, 23, R71–4.
Gillespie, R.G., Baldwin, B.G., Waters, J.M., Fraser, C.I., Nikula, R., & Roderick, G.K. (2012) Long-distance dispersal: a framework for hypothesis testing. Trends in ecology & evolution, 27, 47–56.

Graham, N.R., Gruner, D.S., & Lim, J. (2017) Island ecology and evolution: challenges in the Anthropocene. The Environmentalist, .

Gressitt, L.J. (1954) Introduction. Bernice P. Bishop Museum,

Hofmann, G.E., Barry, J.P., Edmunds, P.J., Gates, R.D., Hutchins, D.A., Klinger, T., & Sewell, M.A. (2010) The Effect of Ocean Acidification on Calcifying Organisms in Marine Ecosystems: An Organism-to-Ecosystem Perspective. Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 41, 127–147.

Kralj-Fišer, S. & Schuett, W. (2014) Studying personality variation in invertebrates: why bother? Animal behaviour, 91, 41–52.

Lasky, J.R., Keitt, T.H., Weeks, B.C., & Economo, E.P. (2017) A hierarchical model of whole assemblage island biogeography. Ecography, 40, 982–990.

Leigh, E.G., Hladik, A., Hladik, C.M., & Jolly, A. (2007) The biogeography of large islands, or how does the size of the ecological theater affect the evolutionary play. Revue d’écologie, 62, 105–168.

Leigh, E.G., Jr, Vermeij, G.J., & Wikelski, M. (2009) What do human economies, large islands and forest fragments reveal about the factors limiting ecosystem evolution? Journal of evolutionary biology, 22, 1–12.

Lim, J.Y. & Marshall, C.R. (2017) The true tempo of evolutionary radiation and decline revealed on the Hawaiian archipelago. Nature, 543, 710–713.

Lohman, D.J., de Bruyn, M., Page, T., von Rintelen, K., Hall, R., Ng, P.K.L., Shih, H.-T., Carvalho, G.R., & von Rintelen, T. (2011) Biogeography of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 42, 205–226.

Meyerhof, M.S., Wilson, J.M., Dawson, M.N., & Michael Beman, J. (2016) Microbial community diversity, structure and assembly across oxygen gradients in meromictic marine lakes, Palau. Environmental microbiology, 18, 4907–4919.

Neall, V.E. & Trewick, S.A. (2008) The age and origin of the Pacific islands: a geological overview. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 363, 3293–3308.

New, T. (1995) Introduction to invertebrate conservation biology. Oxford University Press,

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During the Spring 2018 semester, we'll be posting preparatory information for the course here, including safety information, course readings, and guest posts by our friends in Palau! Please watch this space as the semester progresses.

Once the field portion of the course is in session in the third or fourth week of May, we'll post a few times from Palau with updates on what we're learning there! There will also be a place for retrospectives and reflections as the course winds down over the summer.